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Even if medical researchers succeed in only reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer's, they will have accomplished a great deal. About 4 million Americans suffer from the degenerative brain disorder, and caring for them costs some $100 billion a year. Before the middle of the next century, the aging of the baby-boom generation is expected to swell the number of Alzheimer's sufferers nearly threefold. Measures that delay the onset of symptoms in these patients by just five years could cut the associated health-care costs as much...
...University neurologist Dr. Allen Roses, carry an Alzheimer's-susceptibility gene known as Apo-E4, which produces a protein that appears to affect tau. Individuals who carry two copies of this gene, Roses has shown, have an elevated risk of developing Alzheimer's before age 70. And if they suffer a stroke, warns another report published in last week's J.A.M.A., they are more likely to develop full-blown dementia...
...Many suffer greatly, growing to loath their topics, their advisers and most of all, their deadlines. Others bubble enthusiastically, sure that their thesis is the best experience of their lives...
...seems that except for Chung, Harvard seniors are a bunch of masochists. Why suffer through the misery they all describe...
Aging Baby Boomers obsessed by fitness will sympathize with the plight of President Clinton, who must suffer the consequences of taking a pratfall and ripping up his knee. A little advice for the First Jogger: don't do it. As a so-called impact-loading exercise, jogging puts maximum pressure on the knee, especially once it has been weakened by a major tendon tear. TIME Daily's prescription for fitness: ride a bike. It wi ll provide the same aerobic value while putting no damaging stress on that weakened knee -- and the spandex clothes are cool...